What a performance tonight
Should I react or turn off the light?
Looks like you’re picking a fight
in a blurring of wrong and right
But how your mood changes
You’re a devil, now an angel
Suddenly subtle and solemn and silent as a monk
You only tell me you love me when you’re drunk

It’s better than nothing, I suppose
some doors have opened, others closed
but I couldn’t see you exposed
to the horrors behind some of those
Somebody said: listen
don’t you know what you’re missing?
You should be kissing him
instead of dissing him like a punk
But you only tell me you love me when you’re drunk
You only tell me you love me when you’re drunk

All of my friends keep asking me
Why, oh, why
do you not say goodbye?
If you don’t even try
you’ll be sunk
’cause you only tell me you love me when you’re drunk

What’s the meaning
when you speak with so much feeling?
Is it over when you’re sober?
Is it junk?
You only tell me you love me when you’re drunk
You only tell me you love me when you’re drunk

“I’m sorry, if it sounds a courtly song but it’s not about that. I see a lot of infidelity around me most people involved in music are guilty of it in many cases. I see a lot of trust, promises being broken – I’m guilty of it myself. It’s about all the promises the world of men have made women as far as the future of their lives, security, the raising of children, and I’ve found it wanting. Not a unique thought.”